TORINO - will be investigated by the judiciary to ascertain any liability of the medical staff of Rivoli on the death of an elderly 75 year old .
Ramassotto Catherine, a resident of Trana, in Turin, died following a surgical procedure to remove some gallstones. According to a first reconstruction, the woman suffered perforation of the bile duct, the stretch connecting the spleen and intestine. The patient was discharged and returned to hospital with terrible pain in the abdomen. The doctors have emergency surgery but the situation was already very compromised and the elderly no longer has regained consciousness and died. Relatives of the woman lodged a complaint with the judiciary and a file was opened for manslaughter.
According to the findings of the autopsy, she died as a result of peritonitis and a consequent septicemia due to a perforation occurred during surgery performed with the endoscopic technique. According to lawyers for the hospital is one of the possible complications of the operation and in the family and the patient had been informed.
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